COMPOSITE. 4-9 



Tliis plant possesses many of the jjroperties of the true Chamomile, and on the 

 Continent it is freipiently used as a substitute for it. Much of what is sold aa the oil 

 of Cliumomile is distilled from its flowers, and in Finland it is given as a tonic ia 

 consumption. The flowers are less nauseous and bitter in taste than those of the true 

 CLauiomile. 



GEN US X.—A N T H E M I S. Linn. 



Antliodes hctcrogamous and radiant, rarely discoid, many- 

 flowered. Clinanth hcmisplierical or conical, with paloiie. Peri- 

 clinc sauccr-shnpcd or hemispherical, of numerous imhricated 

 herbaceous phylUiries, sometimes scarious at the margin. Florets 

 of the disk tubular, perfect, without auricles at the base enclosing 

 the ovary, those of the ray ligulate, female or more rarely neuter. 

 Achenes with ribs all round or on the inner face only, crowned 

 by a large or small cpigynous disk, often crowned with a raised 

 generally oblique membranous border representing the ])appus. 



Herbs, with alternate finely-divided leaves. Antliodes gene- 

 rally rather large, with the florets of the disk yellow, those of the 

 ray white, yellow, or rose-colour. 



This g'MHis deiives its name from the Greek word avOtiiov [anthemou), a flower. 



Sub-Genus I.— EU-ANTHEMIS (Anthemis, Gai/). 



Clinanth elongate-conical in fruit. Tube of the perfect florets 

 compressed-winged. Achenes cylindrical-obcouic, truncate at the 

 apex, ribbed on both face and back ; ejiigyuous disk as broad as 

 the top of the achene. 



SPECIES I.— A NTHEMIS COTULA. Linn. 



Plate DCCXX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tub. M. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 123;J. 

 Maruta Coiula, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 13. 



Annual. Stem erect, simple, or several from the crown of 

 the root, corymbosely branched at the apex. Leaves bipiunate 

 (bipinuatipartite), with the secondary leaflets (segments) cut into 

 linear-acute segments, glabrous, not punctate. Peduncles striate, 

 not enlarged beneath the antliodes. Anthodcs very numerous, 

 corymbose. Pericline sub - glabrous, with the phylliries nearly 

 equal, narrowly scarious and pale at the suinuiit, whore they are 



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